Monday, April 17, 2017

I was born in the North. Nonetheless, I have instructed my attorney, a
most honorable Virginian, that when I die he is to see to it that I am
buried in that national cemetery at Gettysburg as close as he can
possibly get me to the high water mark of the Confederacy.

These instructions are based on conviction—the firm conviction that
the American South is one of the last places left on earth where the
true soul of Western Civilization is consciously nurtured and honored.

And what, you ask, is the true soul of Western Civilization? Of the Southern Tradition?

Perhaps the Tradition was already at work when bravery, cunning and
determination kept the ancient Greeks fighting after the defeat at
Thermopylae to prevail at Marathon and Salamis, protecting Europe from
the despotic Persians who represented the utter subordination of the
individual to the state.

Time to retire. I'd like to ask Major Gen John E. McCoy exactly where in
the Air Force regulations does it explicitly state that a service
member is required by law to give official approval to homosexual
conduct? It seems that religious freedom is already a thing of the past
when it conflicts with demand by homosexuals that society give its full
approval and blessing to what was once considered to be a sexual
perversion. It also seems that the rule of law is also a thing of the
past if without any proof of misconduct one can be punished for a crime
you did not commit. This can be viewed as an act of illegal intimidation,
the message here loud and clear is: you will give public support to
homosexuality or your career will suffer. A letter of Admonishment is
a career killer, insuring you will get paseed over for promotion.

I am
not ashamed of my Christian faith and the traditional teaching from it. I
am very much ashamed to admit that I served in and retired from the Air
Force. I am disgusted with the Air Force for punishing a man for his
faith. However, the unintended consequence is that by mandating approval
of homosexuality, there is no logical reason for stating any other type
of sexual conduct is wrong. One now can not say that adultery is wrong,
since all one has to do now is re-define what that word means, so that,
what was once considered to be an immoral act, will now be moral.

Col. Michael Madrid knows he is not the only person in the
military who has experienced “religious hostility” for his beliefs and
so he decided to take a stand out of concern that “religious freedom
will continue to slip away."

Madrid, whose 26 years of military service earned him the Meritorious Service Medal four times, was punished by his new commanding officer because Madrid believes marriage is the union of one man and one woman.

Despite Madrid being completely cleared after a thorough Air Force
investigation into allegations that he spoke derogatorily about
homosexuals, Major Gen. John E. McCoy arbitrarily and without evidence
accused Madrid of lying and issued a surprise Letter of Admonishment
against him, ensuring he would never be promoted and could be demoted.

In case you were wondering why we must NEVER allow the Democrats to regain control of North Carolina's Legislature, we give you H723 - The "Gun Safety Act," sponsored by the usual anti-gun Democrats, Pricey Harrison, Verla Insko, Susan Fisher, Carla Cunningham, Cecil Brockman, Jean Farmer-Butterfield, and Elmer Floyd.

Oddly appears to repeal the law against using claims of self defense when one has provoked the encounter or is committing, attempting to commit, or escaping after the commission of a felony.

Imposes strict "Safe Storage" laws making you criminally liable if a felon breaks into your house, steals your gun, and uses it in a crime.

Imposes criminal liability if you fail to report a stolen gun Imposes a requirement for $100,000 liability insurance to own a firearm Repeals NC's universal reciprocity law.

Bans the possession, sale, and transfer of magazines in handguns and rifles that hold more than 15 rounds for handguns and rifles, or 8 rounds for shotguns.

Requires the State to divest itself of all stocks and bonds in "firearms manufacturers" Introduces "Gun Violence Restraining Orders" which will allow your "immediate family members" to seek a secret court hearing which will allow a judge to take away your right to possess a firearm

It is nothing short of a brazen attack not only on your Second Amendment rights, but also on your natural right to self defense. And what's worse is that we have every reason to believe that our new anti-gun Governor would sign this!

Since the Republicans control both the House and Senate, it is unlikely that such a bill will ever get to the Governor's desk, but is that all we elected pro-gun legislators, to block anti-gun bills? NO! We elected them to pass good bills like the following:

Despite holding a super majority in our House and Senate, we can never stop being vigilant of the shenanigans from Democrats looking to strip our basic right to bear arms. We must continue to fight even if the odds appear to be in our favor.

Livonia, Michigan is known as Little Palestine. The Detroit suburb is
famous for its anti-Israel meetings. You could go hear Mustafa
Barghouthi, Omar Barghouti and Ali Abunimah without taking a long drive.

It’s also known for its shady doctors.

Dr. Murtaza Hussain was busted for letting unlicensed employees diagnose
patients and write prescriptions. Dr. Waseem Alam and Dr. Hatem Ataya
pleaded guilty in the nation’s largest Medicare fraud case totaling $712
million in false billings centering on Shahid Tahir, Muhammad Tariq and
Manavar Javed’s Livonia medical firms. But what was going on at one
Livonia clinic was far worse than the theft of millions. Anyone passing
by at the right time could hear the screams of little girls.

The White House announced Friday that it will nominate an outspoken
critic of the Export-Import Bank to head the agency, following a week in
which President Trump appeared to reverse his position on the
controversial bank.

Former Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), who voted
twice against reauthorizing the bank while in Congress, will be
nominated as president of the bank. Separately, former Rep. Spencer T.
Bachus III (R-Ala.) will be nominated to join the bank’s board. Both
nominees require congressional confirmation.

Garrett, a deeply
conservative Congressman who helped found the House Freedom Caucus, has
in the past heavily criticized the agency he may now be tasked with
leading. In a speech on the floor of the House in 2015, Garrett called
the Ex-Im Bank a “fund for corporate welfare” and “a bank that embodies
the corruption of the free enterprise system.”

Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, said on Friday
morning that President Donald Trump’s populist supporters need not fear
that the decision to strike a Syrian government target last week
represents an embrace of neoconservatism.

“It’s not a modification,” Gorka said Friday on “The Laura Ingraham
Show.” “Donald J. Trump hasn’t changed from November 7 to Good Friday,
April 14,” he said.

"There's beautiful girls here, Oh never you mindBeautiful shapes nature never designedlovely complexions of roses and creamBut let me remark with regard to the sameThat if at that those roses you venture to sipThe colours might all come away on your lipsSo I'll wait for the wild rose that's waitin' for meIn the place where the dark Mourne sweep down to the sea."

Neoliberals, Neocons, Corporate media and “Progressives”
(collectively, the Deep State) praising Trump for the illegal airstrike
against Syria, uniformly calling for more war, and vociferously
attacking all those opposing war. Many figures who opposed
Bush’s war making have become totally “controlled puppets” who say and
do what they are ordered to do—regardless of consistency with past views
and actions.”Larry Chin, April 8, 2017
Segments of the anti-war movement which opposed the 2003 invasion and
occupation of Iraq are tacitly supportive of Trump’s punitive
airstrikes directed against the “Assad regime” allegedly involved in
“killing their own people”, gassing them to death in a premeditated
chemical weapons attack. According to Trump “Assad choked out the lives
of helpless men women and children”.

America’s “Progressive Idol” Noam Chomsky in an April 5 interview with “Democracy Now”
(aired two days before Trump’s punitive airstrikes) favors “regime
change”, intimating that a negotiated “removal” of Bashar Al Assad could
lead to a peaceful settlement.

According to Chomsky: “The Assad regime is a moral disgrace. They’re carrying out horrendous acts, the Russians with them.” Strong
statement with no supporting evidence and documentation provided. The
victims of imperialism are casually blamed for the crimes of
imperialism:

The conservative and noble Christian civilization of the South described below has all but vanished as the New South of industrial capitalism, materialism and commercial vulgarity supplanted it.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

The South and Her People

Remarks of J.C.C. Black, at the Unveiling of the Benjamin H. Hill Statue, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1, 1886 (excerpt):

“As to us, [secession] was not prompted by hatred of the Union resting upon the consent of the people, and governed by the Constitution of our fathers. It was not intended to subvert the vital principles of the government they founded, but to perpetuate them. The government of the new did not differ in its form or any of its essential principles from the old Confederacy. The Constitutions were the same, except such changes as the wisdom of experience suggested.

The Southern Confederacy contemplated no invasion or conquest. Its chief corner-stone was not African slavery. Its foundations were laid in the doctrines of the Fathers of the Republic, and the chief corner-stone was the essential fundamental principle of free government; that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Its purpose was not to perpetuate the slavery of the black race, but to preserve the liberty of the white race of the South. It was another Declaration of American Independence.

In the purity of their motives, in the loftiness of their patriotism, in their love of liberty, they who declared and maintained the first were not worthier than they who declared, and failed, in the last. Animated by such purposes, aspiring to such destiny, feeling justified then (and without shame now), we entered upon that movement. It was opposed by war on the South and her people.

What was the South, and who were her people? Where do you look for the civilization of a people? In their history, in their achievements, in their institutions, in their character, in their men and women, in their love of liberty and country, in their fear of God, in their contributions to the progress of society . . . Measured by this high standard, where was there a grander and nobler civilization than hers?

Where has there been a greater love of learning than that which established her colleges and universities? Where better preparatory schools, sustained by private patronage and not the exactions of the tax-gatherer – now unhappily dwarfed and well-nigh blighted by our modern system.

Whose people had higher sense of personal honor? Whose business and commerce were controlled by higher integrity? Whose public mean had cleaner hands and purer records? Whose soldiers were braver and knightlier? Whose orators more eloquent and persuasive? Whose statesmen more wise and conservative?

Whose young men more chivalric? Whose young women more chaste? Whose fathers and mothers worthier examples? Whose homes more abounded in hospitality as genial and free to every friendly comer as the sun that covered them with its splendor?

Where was there more respect for woman, for church, for the Sabbath, for God, and for the law, which, next to God, is entitled to the highest respect and veneration of man, for it is the fittest representative of His awful majesty, and power and goodness? Where was there more love of home, of country and of liberty?

Her religious teachers, deriving their theology from the Bible, guarded the Church from being spoiled “through philosophy and vain deceit after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

Her women adorned the highest social circles of Europe and America with their modesty, beauty and culture. Her men, in every society, won a higher title than “the grand old name of “gentleman” – that of “Southern gentlemen.”

It is asked what had [the South] added to the glories of the Republic?

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Jefferson. Who led the armies of the Republic in maintaining and establishing that independence? Who gave mankind new ideas of greatness? Who has taught the ruled of the world that man may be entrusted with power? Who has taught the rulers of the world when and how to surrender power? Washington.

What State made the first call for the convention that framed the Constitution? Virginia. Who was the father of the Constitution? Madison. Who made our system of jurisprudence, unsurpassed by the civil law of Rome and the common law of England? Marshall. Who was Marshall’s worthy successor? Taney.

Is it asked where [the South’s] history was written? It was written upon the brightest page of American annals. It was written upon the records of the convention that made the Constitution. It was written in the debates of Congresses that met, not to wrangle over questions of mere party supremacy, but, like statesmen and philosophers, to discuss and solve great problems of human government.

Forced to defend our homes and liberties after every honorable effort for peaceful separation, we went to war. Our leaders were worthy in their high commission. Our people sealed their sincerity with the richest treasure ever offered, and the noblest holocaust ever consumed upon the altar of country.

To many of you who enjoy the honor of having participated in it the history is known. You ought to prove yourselves worthy of that honor by teaching that history to those who come after you.”

“Reading contemporary accounts brings home the fact that of any battle or campaign there are at least four different versions.

One is that of those who fought in it; two is of the generals who commanded in it; three is of those who reported on it at the time and made what they could of a mass of confused and often misleading information; and four is the version of those who had a theory about it and reported those facts which happened to fit the version they were trying to portray.

Of all these sources the first and second are the ones which are given least credence because their authors are probably unskilled in literary matters. But for the historian they are the only source of value.”

If you are a white student in college, you doubtless hear daily that
white people are evil, the principal cause of everything wrong with the
world. Whiteness is bad, white people are bad. We are to blame for
everything.

If you believe this, you are being gamed. What you are being told is
nonsense. If you have the intelligence and self-respect to think for
yourself, ask:

“What have other races and ethnic groups accomplished in the world compared to what we white people have?”

This question will be shocking to you because you have been carefully
programmed not to think such things. But ask. I think you will find
that the groups who complain the most have accomplished the least. Check
for yourself.

It has become embarrassing to be an American. Our country has had four
war criminal presidents in succession. Clinton twice launched
military attacks on Serbia, ordering NATO to bomb the former Yugoslavia
twice, both in 1995 and in 1999, so that gives Bill two war crimes.
George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and attacked provinces of
Pakistan and Yemen from the air. That comes to four war crimes for Bush.
Obama used NATO to destroy Libya and sent mercenaries to destroy
Syria, thereby commiting two war crimes. Trump attacked Syria with US
forces, thereby becoming a war criminal early in his regime.

To the extent that the UN participated in these war crimes along with
Washington’s European, Canadian and Australian vassals, all are guilty
of war crimes. Perhaps the UN itself should be arraigned before the War
Crimes Tribunal along with the EU, US, Australia and Canada.

Quite a record. Western Civilization, if civilization it is, is the greatest committer of war crimes in human history.

Stevie Stephenson murdered​ a 74 year old man in Cleveland Ohio on Facebook
live stream. Cleveland cops plead with Facebook live stream murder
suspect to surrender - lone-wolf sager(◑_◑).

active shooter in Cleveland streams murder live on Facebook. police in Cleveland are
hunting for an active shooter who allegedly broadcast a murder on Facebook live and claims to have killed several other people.

The God-fearing, Bible-reading, hymn-singing Confederate army grew out
of a Southern soil well cultivated during the long struggle of
countless, if largely unsung, preachers to civilize a harsh and violent
frontier. Personal piety and Bible-centered family circles bolstered the
churches in a successful effort to shape the regional culture. The
churches assumed responsibility for the education, especially moral, of
the people, high and low and to a degree rarely appreciated, they set
the terms for a vast consensus on the proper foundations of the social
order.

Let there be no mistake: a firm commitment to slavery-lay at the
heart of that consensus, but few dared to enter public dis­cussion of
slavery’s character and consequences without being pre­pared to ground
their views in Scripture. For unlike the North, the South resisted the
rising pressure to slight the Word and reduce the Spirit to
philosophical speculation. In helping to forge that conserva­tive
sensibility, the most humble preachers stood with the most
so­phisticated theologians. For, much like the leading secular
intellectuals (most of whom also took religious ground) they did not
suffer that acute alienation from their society which was becoming the
hallmark of the intellectuals of the North and, indeed, of the whole of
trans-Atlantic bourgeois society.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.